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This submission reflects this organization's contribution to the climate effort, representative of their current actions and commitments as well as the ways in which they intend to step up and collaborate with others.

Lyft's Climate Action Contribution

About Lyft's Climate Efforts

Lyft was one of the first companies to join the We Are Still In movement to pledge its commitment to the Paris Climate Accord. Shortly thereafter, Lyft outlined their company Climate Impact Goals, making a commitment to address the threat posed by global climate change.

In April 2018, Lyft announced that all rides will be carbon-neutral going forward. This is a significant, multi-million dollar investment, that is anticipated to offset over a million metric tons of carbon, equivalent to planting at least 35 million trees in the first year alone. Lyft is the first rideshare company to offset all rides globally, and will become one of the largest voluntary purchasers of carbon offsets in the U.S., and among the top 10 globally - according to Lyft’s partner agency, 3Degrees -who rigorously verified the offsets according to recognized independent 3rd-party standards (VCS, ACR, CAR) and project-specific verification protocols.

This action is not the full solution, but a real step forward. By committing significant financial resources to these offsets, Lyft is building into our business a strong incentive to pursue shared rides and the displacement of gasoline-powered vehicles. The more shared rides and clean vehicles on the platform, the fewer carbon offsets Lyft will need to purchase.

Climate Action Commitments

Current Climate Actions Lyft Is Taking:

Commit to Reducing the Climate Impact of Your Transportation

Organizations making a commitment to reduce the climate impact of transportation should consider practices such as measuring transportation greenhouse gas emissions and setting reduction targets, switching fuels, optimizing the efficiency of shipping operations, and reducing transit- and travel-related greenhouse gas emissions. Businesses can develop a green transportation action plan to map the movement of goods to market and identify opportunities to increase efficiency. Organizations can buy hybrid and electric vehicles within their own fleet, and can reduce the footprint of their workforce through incentivizing public transportation, installing EV charging stations, promoting telework, and locating near transit centers.

Commit to Understand and Reduce Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Understanding your GHG emissions is the first step to making measurable reductions in those emissions. The EPA provides an overview report and CoolClimate Network provides a simple tool for “low emitters” to better understand sources of emissions, as well as how to use that information to set reduction targets. For this commitment, it is as simple as committing to complete a greenhouse gas inventory for your business or oganization, but in the future your inventory can be used to make a commitment to set a specific goal, such as “reduce GHG emissions by 50% by 2025.

Areas For Collaboration

We are interested in collaborating on the following:

Electric Vehicles

Aggregating demand for electric vehicles with other actors

Encouraging more aggressive state targets for electric vehicles and GHG standards

Promoting increased charging infrastructure

Organization details

Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. Lyft is the fastest growing rideshare company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population as well as in Ontario, Canada. Lyft is preferred by drivers and passengers for its safe and friendly experience, and its commitment to effecting positive change for the future of our cities. Lyft is also carbon-neutral, meaning that a decision to ride with Lyft is a decision to take a cleaner transportation option.

We Are Still In is as a joint declaration of support for climate action, signed by more than 3,500 CEOs, mayors, governors, college presidents, and others. The organizations they represent comprise the largest and most diverse coalition of actors ever established in pursuit of climate action.